After a long and very painful battle with cancer, Fiona passed away at 2.15 am on Saturday May 16, with her sister Sheila and niece Eleni holding her hand. Fiona was born in Edgware in North London, to an English father and a Scottish mother, and was an extraordinary person […]
In Focus
In Focus
The great disconnect
Warren Buffet, the US investment guru, has apparently withdrawn all his investments in airlines. In addition, Richard Branson’s Virgin Atlantic is removing all its flights from Gatwick Airport. Steve Latham What does this portend for the future of air-travel? While it may be good for climate change, in […]
Past, present and future in Chinese fiction
The Hong Kong actor Maggie Cheung remarked in an interview “The Chinese don’t accord much importance to things of the past, whether it’s films, heritage, or even clothes or furniture. In Asia nothing is preserved, turning towards the past is regarded as stupid, aberrant.” A sweeping statement but one that […]
Colombians abroad demand to be allowed to return home
A group of citizens, living in different parts of the world, have signed a letter demanding the Colombian government allow them to return to their country, since they have been trapped abroad for two months. The letter is addressed to President Iván Duque, whose measures to facilitate the return […]
Memories of my grandma
My grandma was the condensation of the zeitgeist in personal form. Certainly, in Lancashire, the cotton industry was concretised physically through the textile factories dominating the Irwell valley. Steve Latham The chimneys of Blake’s ‘dark satanic mills’, Lowry’s grey-brown townscapes peopled with ‘match men and matchstick cats and […]
















